Parish Church of St Nicholas
PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, LOWER WINCHENDON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1159892
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, LOWER WINCHENDON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1159892
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, LOWER WINCHENDON
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, LOWER WINCHENDON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Nether Winchendon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 73269 12252
Details
SP 71 SW LOWER WINCHENDON LOWER WINCHENDON north side
2/344 Parish Church of St. Nicholas
21.12.67
GV I
Parish Church. C13, mostly rebuilt C14. C15 west tower. Limestone rubble with stone dressings. Old tile roof to chancel and porch, lead to nave. 2 bay chancel,4 bay aisleless nave, south porch and west tower. Chancel has diagonal buttresses. East window of 3-lights of cusped intersecting tracery. 2 north windows C14, each 2 trefoil lights with 3 quatrefoils. 2 south windows C15 of 2 cinquefoil lights under 4-centred head. Central south door. Nave has on north side 2 windows of cinquefoil lights under 4-centred heads, 2-light to east bay 3-light to west bay. East angle buttress and buttresses flanking west bay. South side of nave has 3 buttresses. East window of 3 cinquefoil lights in four-centred head, west window of 3 cinquefoil lights and tracery under flat head. Gabled porch in bay 3 from east, entrance arch with continuous moulded jambs of 2 orders. Single light trefoil side windows. West tower of 2 stages with half-octagonal south east angle stair turret and embattled parapet. West doorway with continuous moulded jambs, the arch with flowers. 2-light cinquefoil with quatrefoil window over. 2-light belfry windows in Tudor heads. All gables stone coped. Nave has plain parapet. Interior. Chancel arch C13 of 2 chamfered orders with semi-octagonal responds, moulded caps and bases. Tower arch of 2 hollow chamfered orders, semi-octagonal responds. Semi-octagonal cap to inner order. Chancel roof has moulded C15 wall plate. Nave roof dated 'T & G 1827'. Chamfered short kingposts, acorn pendants below. Shaped double ogee tie beam braces. Battlemented C15 corbels. C18 communion rails with turned vase balusters and square newels. Nave has mainly C18 box pews, but squire's pew incorporates C16 traceried panels. C16 pews at west with cut profile ends, restored. Pulpit c1630 hexagonal with canopy and arcaded panels. C18 west gallery with panel front on 2 octagonal posts. Font C15 octagonal bowl on moulded base. Piscina in chancel C15 with ogee head. Sill of chancel south east window carried down to form sedilia;fragmentary stoup in porch. Stained Glass: Chancel: East window C15 three leaves. North West Window leopards head, foliage and Stafford Shield, C15. Nave: South West Window. C15 figure of St. Peter, shield with arms. Chancel south windows have C16 Flemish glass and armorial panels. Nave bay 3 has C18 Creed, Commandments and Lords Prayer on timber in architectural frame with cornice, reeded pilasters and pediment over centre panels. Hanoverian Arms in west Gallery. Brasses. In chancel, 3 of C15 with figures. Monuments. In Chancel to Tyringham family, Thomas Tyringham 1629 in architrave frame, broken pediment and cartouche. Others C17 and C18. RCHM I. 246. MON.1.
Listing NGR: SP7326812258
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 43285
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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